Video game BAFTA award winners announced

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The BAFTAs are known as Britain’s big awards for TV and movies, but the British Academy just handed out its second set of awards for outstanding video games.{ad}

A total of fifteen awards were given to twelve winners. Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was the big winner of the night, taking gongs for Story and Character, Gameplay, and the people’s choice award sponsored by UK retailer GAME.

Many of the winners leave little room for controversy, like EA Redwood Shores’ Dead Space which took both of the awards for audio-related achievements and Valve’s Left 4 Dead, which ran away with the Multiplayer gong. Super Mario Galaxy‘s award for Best Game, however, has sparked a few reactions around the Internet.

If some of the games being awarded seem late, it’s because the BAFTA video game awards honoring the 2007 holiday season and first half of 2008 were scheduled for late 2008 and then pushed back until now. The Academy promises to be on schedule from now on.

MediaMolecule co-founder Mark Healey, who accepted LittleBigPlanet‘s award for Artistic Achievement, especially appreciated winning a BAFTA among the game’s myriad awards because “it’s something I can explain to my mum and she’ll understand.”